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100
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Units 3 & 4
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The QCAA Digital Solutions practice bank features 100 syllabus-aligned multiple-choice questions designed to prepare Queensland Year 12 students for internal assessments and the Senior External Examination. Content spans cybersecurity & CIA triad, relational database modeling & SQL, pseudocode algorithms & trace tables, and modern web/app development.
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1Which component of the CIA Triad ensures that information is accessible only to authorized users and protected from unauthorized access?
A.Integrity
B.Confidentiality
C.Availability
D.Authenticity
Explanation: Confidentiality ensures that data is accessible only to authorized individuals, entities, or processes. Measures such as encryption, access control lists, and multi-factor authentication are used to uphold confidentiality.
2A user receives an email claiming to be from their bank, asking them to click a link and re-enter their password immediately. What type of cyber attack is this?
A.Man-in-the-Middle attack
B.SQL Injection
C.Phishing attack
D.Denial of Service attack
Explanation: Phishing is a social engineering attack where fraudulent emails or messages impersonate legitimate organizations to trick victims into revealing sensitive information like credentials or financial details.
3Why should passwords stored in a database be hashed rather than saved as plain text?
A.Hashing compresses the password so it takes up less disk space.
B.Hashing allows administrators to retrieve user passwords when they forget them.
C.Hashing automatically sends a security code to the user's mobile device.
D.Hashing is a one-way transformation so the original password cannot be easily reversed if the database is leaked.
Explanation: A cryptographic hash function converts text into a fixed-length string in a one-way operation. Storing hashes ensures that even if attackers breach the database, they cannot easily read original passwords.
4Which of the following represents Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
A.Logging in using a password (something you know) and a time-based code sent to an authenticator app (something you have)
B.Entering a password and then re-typing the exact same password to confirm
C.Entering a username, password, and email address on a sign-up form
D.Using two different web browsers to log into the same web account simultaneously
Explanation: MFA requires two or more distinct authentication factors from different categories: something you know (password), something you have (phone/token), or something you are (biometrics).
5What is the primary purpose of the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988?
A.To regulate how businesses format software source code
B.To govern the collection, use, disclosure, and security of personal information by Australian organizations
C.To enforce minimum internet speed requirements across regional Australia
D.To grant government agencies unrestricted access to private consumer databases
Explanation: The Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) outline statutory standards rights and obligations regarding the collection, storage, handling, correction, and privacy of personal information by Australian government agencies and private businesses.
6What is the key difference between symmetric encryption and asymmetric encryption?
A.Symmetric encryption is only used for hardware, while asymmetric encryption is used for software.
B.Symmetric encryption cannot be decrypted, whereas asymmetric encryption can.
C.Symmetric encryption uses one secret key for both encryption and decryption, whereas asymmetric encryption uses a public key and private key pair.
D.Symmetric encryption uses 256 keys, whereas asymmetric encryption uses only 1 key.
Explanation: Symmetric encryption relies on a single shared key for both encrypting and decrypting data. Asymmetric encryption uses a mathematically linked pair of keys: a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption.
7What is the primary function of a network firewall?
A.To physically prevent computer hardware from overheating
B.To increase broadband internet download speeds for local devices
C.To back up server databases automatically every night
D.To monitor and filter incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predefined security rules
Explanation: A firewall acts as a security barrier between trusted internal networks and untrusted external networks (like the internet), blocking unauthorized traffic according to established rule sets.
8Which type of malware encrypts a victim's files and demands payment in exchange for the decryption key?
A.Ransomware
B.Spyware
C.Adware
D.Keylogger
Explanation: Ransomware locks or encrypts files/systems and holds them hostage, demanding a financial ransom from the victim to restore access.
9How does a SQL Injection (SQLi) attack occur, and what is the most effective defense against it?
A.An attacker sends flood requests to exhaust server RAM; mitigated by installing more physical RAM.
B.An attacker inputs malicious SQL commands into form fields to manipulate backend queries; mitigated by using parameterized queries (prepared statements).
C.An attacker steals session cookies via HTTP links; mitigated by turning off JavaScript in user browsers.
D.An attacker guesses user passwords using brute force; mitigated by limiting login attempts to 3 times.
Explanation: SQL Injection occurs when untrusted user input is directly concatenated into SQL statement strings. Using parameterized queries (prepared statements) separates SQL code from user data, preventing execution of injected commands.
10What is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and how can application developers prevent it?
A.Injecting malicious SQL into database logs; prevented by re-indexing database tables.
B.Overloading web server ports with invalid TCP handshakes; prevented by deploying a network router.
C.Injecting malicious client-side scripts into trusted web pages viewed by other users; prevented by sanitizing and escaping all user input before rendering.
D.Interceptors stealing Wi-Fi packets; prevented by disabling Bluetooth.
Explanation: XSS occurs when an application includes untrusted data in a web page without proper validation or escaping, allowing attackers to execute scripts in the victim's browser context. Input sanitization and output encoding prevent XSS.
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